mathematics

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Zvezda Stankova, a teaching professor in the Berkeley mathematics department who is one of the letter’s lead organizers, said the impetus to publicly speak out came in part from her own classrooms.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

If you think writing out a math calculation with pen and paper is enough to create consciousness, you have far more faith in mathematics than I do.

From Slate • May 25, 2026

Hawking could intuit the mathematics that describes the fabric of spacetime, but in that earlier book he sometimes forgot that the rest of us could not do the same, and meandered into distracting mathematical discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The mathematics also requires the strings to exist in at least 10 dimensions rather than the four dimensions humans experience.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

It was before the beginning of history, so paleontologists have had to piece together the tale of the birth of mathematics from bits of stone and bone.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife